The Clone

The Clone is the pseudonym of a Canadian phone phreak. He appeared on the Canadian phone phreaking scene in 1998.

Biography

Since he started his exploration of the telecommunications systems in 1998, The Clone has published over 100 technical articles, mostly pertaining to phone phreaking in one way or another. In 1999 he launched Nettwerked.net, a web-site dedicated to sharing hacking and phreaking information and building up the "H/P" community in Canada along with Hackcanada, which started up a year earlier.

Later in 1999, The Clone spawned the idea for K-1ine, an electronic magazine which has since enjoyed over 50 issues and thousands of pages of new and exciting, technology-related information. The Clone began spending more time managing Nettwerked.net, and Nettwerked became a community of its own, a place where hacker-types congregate and share information.

The Clone is also an outspoken community activist on the subjects of freedom, privacy, and state control. He, in conjunction with the Edmonton 2600 group, organized the Edmonton chapter of 2600 Magazine's Stop the MPAA leafletting drive, and the Edmonton BarWatch/Barlink protests. Being a popular phone phreak has also brought The Clone into a few conflicts with the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) and Telus (the local telephone company in his hometown); however, it has also garnered him a number of friends, including Lucky225 and 2600 personality Emmanuel Goldstein.

The Clone currently resides in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, where he continues his exploration of the telephone system.

Works

K-1ine magazine is an electronic magazine edited and published by The Clone. The magazine has been advertised in many print and electronic media. It has earned a reputable status in underground technical electronic magazine circles due to its consistently useful and technical content. K-1ine has also been able to appeal to readers of varying technical skills, due to the wide range of articles submitted.

The Clone created Nettwerked Meetings in January of 2004 as a nod to 2600 Meetings (created by Emmanuel Goldstein of 2600.com), which run every month. Nettwerked Meetings are an open forum for hacker-types to present their ideas and simply get together and talk on an informal basis. They were held monthly in Toronto and Edmonton until the summer of 2007. He also began Nettwerked Radio, featuring new artists mainly from Canada. Nettwerked Radio streams weekly over the internet.

To this day The Clone continues to publish articles, and currently is the editor and maintainer of the electronic magazine, "K-1ine". As of August 2008, K-1ine has published 51 issues, and is the second-longest-running electronic magazine in North America targeted at hackers and phone phreaks.

Media references

*The Clone was featured in a Wired News article regarding Defcon, which was released on October 8th, 1999.
*CBC Montreal interviewed The Clone at DEF CON 7 for a "special report" on hacking culture, which was then aired on October 9th, 1999.
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*The Clone was interview by Jackel, editor of the printed magazine No Sleep Magazine, in January of 2004. Advertisements for Nettwerked and K-1ine magazine were also featured in Comatose Rose Magazine.
*The Clone and K-1ine magazine appeared in Space Rogue's Hacker News Network in July of 2000.
*[http://www.2600.com/news/view/article/340 The Clone and HackCanada's work during the 2600 "Stop the MPAA" leafletting campaign]
*Nettwerked Radio on Whittier Daily News

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